Stupid is as ... #9

When the media is the mess

    Fact: The South Florida news media devoted far more coverage to the Miami Dolphins football team’s miserable performance in 2010 and 2011 than it did to the horrific trends in health care.
    Small wonder a Pew Research Center for People & the Press survey revealed 69% of Americans found details of the Obama administration’s Health Care Reform  “hard to understand.”
   For example:
   Here’s some stunning data that went unreported in both the Miami Herald and the Sun-Sentinel....

        Average Family Health Insurance Premium
                                               
2003         2010

          
Consumer Price Index                                                     19%
              Premium Cost:
              United States                    $9,249           $13,871        50%
           % median 
               family income      15.2%         20.6%
              Florida                                  $9,331           $15,032        61%
             
% median 
                family income     16.4%         24.4%

              Source:
           The Commonwealth Fund – November 2011
     

 


 

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